Cutting 50 M‑record Deep Paging from 10 min to 1 s – 600× Faster with ES Search‑After & Redis
This article details how a photo‑contest backend migrated from MySQL to Elasticsearch and, through three rounds of optimization—including multi‑level Redis anchor caching, recent‑anchor positioning, and a large‑interval‑plus‑small‑page‑anchor strategy—reduced arbitrary deep‑page response time from ten minutes to about one second, achieving a 600‑fold speedup while exposing remaining data‑drift challenges.
